Great minds like Kennan and Oppenheimer helped win the Cold War and prevent World War Three altogether.
If we exclude the demobilization periods following the end of World War II (three years) and the Korean War (two years) when spending declined, it has gone up 95% of the time.
Then during the Second World War, he survived more than three years in Japanese prisoner of war camps.
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When the area was part of the Ottoman Empire prior to World War One, it was three separate provinces centered on Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, in recognition of its ethnic diversity.
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After being kicked out of Ohio University for unruly behavior, he joined the Navy and served for three years during World War II.
Her father, Hal Dunwoody, is a veteran of three wars -- World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
He also predicted that as a percentage of GDP, primary current expenditure (excluding interest payments and capital spending), which in 2008 reached its highest level since the second world war, would rise by a further three percentage points in 2009.
And how that expression had come from World War I, because if you lit three cigarettes off one match in your foxhole or trench the enemy in his foxhole or trench had three pins of light to triangulate your location and then he blew up everything or maybe just shot you and your two buddies.
In the space of 4 years during World War II, we borrowed the equivalent of three to five times the amount we'd need to borrow to save Social Security over a 20-year period.
The IMF, established after World War II, has had seven managing directors, three from France - among them Mr Camdessus, who held the post for 13 years - two from Sweden and one from Belgium and the Netherlands.
The record office said the Raymond Frostick Map Collection included maps where the North Sea is described as the German Ocean - a term often used until World War I - and King's Lynn was called three different names - Linn, Lyn and Lin.
The parade has only been canceled three times, from 1942 to 1944 during World War II.
First launched in 1956 as a means of uniting European countries after World War II, the latter has been running for longer than all three of the former, combined.
The parade has missed just three years since then, from 1942 through 1944 during World War II.
In World War II, my father's B-17 was shot down three times.
The company's early history is the tale of three friends who met in the Italian air corps during World War I and hatched a plan to build motorcycles.
Kennedy lived up to the ideals of three older brothers, all of whom died young -- Joseph in World War II, President John and Sen.
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It is estimated the Nazis murdered 80, 000 people at Majdanek, three-quarters of them Jews, during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
Jewish groups and lawyers for Holocaust survivors had been clamouring for three years for the return of wealth that flowed through neutral Switzerland during the second world war.
The work has travelled on three previous occasions - to Paris and Milan in the 1930s and for safekeeping during World War II - but this will be the first time it has left the Uffizi since 1945.
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